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Topic: Tuning the 9th String from D to D#
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Wayne D. Clark
Member From: Wisconsin, USA
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posted 16 August 2006 09:30 AM
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Do any of you tune your 9th string to a D# like the 2nd string in E9th? I find it give me a nice cord with the 10th 9th 7th 6th 5th 2nd & 1st. the 6th gives it a melow miner, However I have no idea what open chord it is.MSA D10 8/2 |
Harry Johansen
Member From: Kvalsund.Norway
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posted 16 August 2006 11:53 AM
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Try to tune your 9th string to C#,and the same knee lever raise the string to D.Sounds good,also with the Franklin pedal. |
Jerry Hayes
Member From: Virginia Beach, Va.
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posted 16 August 2006 12:40 PM
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Hey Wayne,
I personally tune my 9th string to C# with a raise to D but there are some uses for a D# on the 9th string. The late Winnie Winston had that change on a knee lever where he'd raise his 9th string to D#. With the D# note a nice ending to a fast solo is playing the strings in this order: 6,7,8,6,7,8,9,7,8........ However, I don't think it'd be a good thing to keep that string at D# all the time, you might want to put it on a knee lever along with a 2nd string lower or something. I have seen that change added to a C pedal....JH in Va.------------------
Don't matter who's in Austin (or anywhere else) Ralph Mooney is still the king!!!
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David Doggett
Member From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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posted 16 August 2006 01:15 PM
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Many people have a lever that takes the 8th string (and 4th string) E to Eb(D#). So they wouldn't need a string tuned to that note. That change is the basis for the shift to the B6 mode on a uni. It also creates a G#m chord.------------------
Student of the Steel: Zum uni, Fender tube amps, squareneck and roundneck resos, tenor sax, keyboards |
Earnest Bovine
Member From: Los Angeles CA USA
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posted 17 August 2006 11:44 AM
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I have a lever that raises my 9th string D up to D#. It also pulls the 1st string F# to G and G#, which is an unrelated change that doesn't interfere much with the 9th string change.
For me this is an "extra" LKL and I have to pull away from the guitar a little bit to use it. |
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